Tim Buckley died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28 in 1975. Like his father, Jeff Buckley died long before he reached his full potential. He enjoyed a meteoric rise, ...

But Buckley had demons. His father was Tim Buckley, the gifted eclectic late-’60s folk rocker, who ditched Jeff before he was even born. Jeff was raised by his mother, ...

His mother, Mary Guibert, and father, Tim Buckley, had gotten married straight out of high school in Anaheim, California, having fallen in love as they both tried to escape their turbulent homes.

Tim Buckley’s passing leaves a myriad of tributes from other musicians, yet little to no mention of his abandoned son, only the family he started afterward. This wounds Jeff, ...

But the elder Buckley abandoned his child before he was born, and they only met once. Tim Buckley died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28 in 1975. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Tim Buckley died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28 in 1975. Like his father, Jeff Buckley died long before he reached his full potential. He enjoyed a meteoric rise, ...